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12 Leading Vendors Operationalising AI & ML with Robust Data Pipelines

The transition of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) models from experimental sandboxes to production environments remains a persistent operational friction point. While quantitative researchers and data scientists can often demonstrate alpha in isolated backtesting environments, the institutionalisation of these models requires a level of data pipeline robustness, latency control and regulatory auditability that research...

 

 

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Upcoming Webinar: Managing Off-Channel Communications Compliance

The proliferation of unmonitored communication channels—ranging from personal messaging apps to embedded chat functions in trading platforms—has introduced significant compliance challenges for capital markets firms. Regulatory bodies including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)  have intensified their scrutiny, emphasizing the necessity for firms to maintain comprehensive records of…

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TradingTech Summit New York

Our TradingTech Summit in New York is aimed at senior-level decision makers in trading technology, electronic execution, trading architecture and offers a day packed with insight from practitioners and from innovative suppliers happy to share their experiences in dealing with the enterprise challenges facing our marketplace.

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Regulatory Data Handbook 2025 – Thirteenth Edition

Welcome to the thirteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a unique and practical guide to capital markets regulation, regulatory change, and the data and data management requirements of compliance across Europe, the UK, US and Asia-Pacific. This year’s edition lands at a moment of accelerating regulatory divergence and intensifying data focused supervision. Inside,…

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DTCC Quantifies the Capital Case for Tokenised Collateral as AppChain Nears Q4 Launch

DTCC’s new research paper on tokenised collateral, published this week with consultancy Finadium, arrives as the business-case companion to a product rollout already well under way. A day earlier, DTCC confirmed that Chainlink’s Runtime Environment would provide the data and orchestration layer for its forthcoming Collateral AppChain. The paper now supplies the balance-sheet case institutions...

12 Leading Vendors Operationalising AI & ML with Robust Data Pipelines

The transition of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) models from experimental sandboxes to production environments remains a persistent operational friction point. While quantitative researchers and data scientists can often demonstrate alpha in isolated backtesting environments, the institutionalisation of these models requires a level of data pipeline robustness, latency control and regulatory auditability that research...

From Quiet Practice to Explicit Disclosure: How the Fed’s Alt-Data Use is Reshaping the Macro Stack

At the October 2025 FOMC press conference, during the federal government shutdown that had interrupted the flow of official statistics, Chair Jerome Powell did something the Federal Reserve has rarely done in public: he cited the alternative datasets from PriceStats, Adobe and ADP that the central bank was leaning on. For many observers of the...

Don’t Misread a Shift in Regulatory Tone – Global Relay

US regulators may be stepping back from the penalty-led off-channel communications sweeps that defined recent enforcement cycles, but that does not mean firms can ease up on surveillance or record-keeping controls. The shift under new leadership at the SEC and CFTC should be reviewed as a change in enforcement emphasis: fewer technical cases pursued in...

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The Future of AI in Compliance Recording

In an era of escalating regulatory pressure, financial institutions can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to transform compliance from a cost burden into a strategic competitive advantage. These technologies, applied to sophisticated monitoring systems, generate structured, high-quality data at scale, converting what was once a static compliance archive into a source...

The Future of the Buy-Side Trading Desk

The buy-side trading desk of the future is asset-agnostic and AI-augmented. The defining characteristic is an architecture where clean, joined-up workflows across all products allow an agentic overlay to function reliably. For investment firms, the priority is to establish these common foundational layers now; firms that remain trapped in siloed, asset-specific stacks will find that...

Reclaiming Value in a Shifting Legal Landscape: The 2025 Top 100 Settlements Analysis

While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to...

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A-Team Innovation Awards

We are thrilled to unveil the winners of the 2026 A-Team Innovation Awards. These awards celebrate successful projects within financial institutions (both with vendor support and without) across the financial enterprise.

RegTech Insight Awards Europe

Voting in the 6th annual RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 is now closed. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.

TradingTech Insight Awards USA

Voting in the 8th annual TradingTech Insight Awards USA is now closed. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.

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  • Regulatory Data Handbook 2025 – Thirteenth Edition

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  • The DORA Implementation Playbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Demonstrating Resilience Beyond the Deadline

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